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Profiles of disciplined educators

David B. Arter

Date of birth: Jan. 17, 1962

School: multiple schools

Job: substitute teacher

Allegation: Detectives called Arter a cold, calculated and violent sexual predator
who victimized several children during many years. He worked in as many as eight schools, mostly in
Logan and Crawford counties. He also was a Boy Scout volunteer. Arter also worked as a teacher and
live-in house parent at a home for adolescent boys in Logan County. There, he was charged with the
attempted rape of a boy. While he was awaiting trial, detectives in Lorain County discovered he had
drugged a 14-year-old boy with a homemade alcohol-hallucinogen drink and raped him repeatedly on
out-of-state road trips, where he took pictures and video of him naked. In that case, he was
charged with two counts of rape, using a minor in nudity-oriented material and furnishing alcohol
to a minor.

Outcome: He was convicted of attempted gross sexual imposition and sexual battery
in the Logan County case and pleaded guilty in 2002 to three counts of attempted rape and using a
minor in nudity-oriented material in the Lorain County case. He was sentenced to 15 years to life
in prison and labeled a sexually violent predator. His license was revoked.

Whereabouts: North Central Correctional Institution, Marion

Response: "It would be silly to think I would ever offend again," Arter said in an
interview at the prison. "It was a weird time in my life. It was one incident."

Jeffrey T. Bartlett

Date of birth: July 17, 1971

School: Kenton Middle School in Hardin County

Job: science teacher, soccer and basketball coach

Allegation: Last year, Bartlett raped a 14-year-old student who was baby-sitting
at his home. After plying the boy with beer, Bartlett insisted he sleep in his bed. When the boy
passed out, Bartlett began molesting him. After Bartlett fell asleep, the boy crept out of bed and
ran, half-clothed, about a mile home through the streets of Kenton.

Outcome: Through a plea deal, Bartlett agreed to serve seven years in prison for
two counts of rape. He was labeled a sexual predator. The state stripped him of his license last
year.

Whereabouts: Chillicothe Correctional Institution

Response: Bartlett declined to comment.

Sources: Kenton police and Hardin County court records

Kathy Burgess

Date of birth: Aug. 11, 1954

School: Hannah Ashton Middle School in Reynoldsburg

Job: fifth-grade math teacher

Allegations: In the fall of 2000, Burgess befriended a 12-year-old boy in her
class. Her contact with him escalated from buying him cigars and condoms to fondling. Authorities
found out about the relationship six months after it ended. Burgess blamed the boy for "blabbing."
The boy's father later read a letter from his son to a judge, saying the student was "embarrassed
by the sexual things that happened between Ms. Burgess and me. She took my childhood away." The boy
transferred to a school outside Franklin County.

Outcome: Burgess was convicted of sexual imposition and child endangering and
sentenced to five years of probation. Her license was revoked in 2002.

Whereabouts: lives in Westerville

Response: She did not respond to requests for comment.

Source: Franklin County Common Pleas Court records

Randall W. Crane

Date of birth: Nov. 9, 1962

School: Jennings Middle School in Akron

Job: music teacher and softball coach

Allegation: The mother of a 14-year-old girl sought out Crane to help her
daughter, who had been molested by a family acquaintance. He obliged and quickly became the girl's
only friend. During their 16-month relationship, ending in 2002, Crane bought her gifts, drove her
home from school and eventually asked for sex. The girl told Crane that she was not good in bed. He
told her she needed practice. "I was left with guilt if I didn't participate in sexual acts," the
girl told police. "I wanted to impress him, and I wanted him to like me. Randy told me not to tell
anyone because it would ruin his reputation." She broke her silence about the relationship when she
went to police four years later.

Outcome: He pleaded guilty to sexual battery and surrendered his teaching license
in 2006. He served seven months in prison.

Whereabouts: lives in Cuyahoga Falls

Response: He declined to comment.

Sources: Akron police, Summit County prosecutor records

Philip L. Fox

Date of birth: Oct. 14, 1963

School: Liberty-Benton High School in Findlay

Job: Social-studies teacher

Allegation: Fox regularly surfed pornographic Web sites during the school day.
Over time, he created and stored more than 11,000 files of hard-core pornography on his school
computer. Then, while a student teacher was leading his class, Fox showed students a slide show,
with captions, that depicted "teens" having sex with "Mr. F." None of the "teens" were
students.

Outcome: The school district, which was aware of parents' concerns about Fox, let
him resign but reported his misconduct to the state in 2004. The state revoked his teaching license
in 2005.

Whereabouts: Fox moved to Rome, Ga., and became a landscaper.

Response: Fox said that he does not work around children any longer. He declined
to comment about his discipline.

Sources: Ohio Department of Education and school records

Laura A. Gall-Henry

Date of birth: July 7, 1976

School: Hillsboro High School in Highland County

Job: agriculture teacher and student council adviser

Allegation: Gall-Henry sought the affection and friendship of her students.
Between 2002 and 2003, she went on trips with them, took some to concerts, bought them alcohol and
complained to them about her marriage. She exchanged inappropriate e-mails with several male
students. "Do you remember telling me that after we did the dirty it is hard telling how you will
look at me?" one student wrote to her in an e-mail. "…have things changed?" She signed most of her
e-mails with "love ya" or "XOXOXO."

Outcome: She signed a settlement agreement with the school district in which she
resigned and the district promised to keep information secret and out of her personnel file. The
state took her license in 2004.

Whereabouts: Gall-Henry's last known address was in Wilmington.

Response: She could not be reached for comment.

Source: Ohio Department of Education records

Megan Graves

Date of birth: Dec. 23, 1976

School: Groveport Madison High School

Job: Spanish teacher

Allegation: First-year teacher Graves looked so young that she fooled the mother
of her 16-year-old boyfriend into believing that she was a teenager. Graves fell for the boy in
Spanish class in 2003. He invited her to family dinners. She took him to meet her folks. The boy's
mother once caught them in bed together and later learned that he helped Graves deal with a medical
condition. Rumors spread at school about the relationship. A teacher eventually told an assistant
principal about the rumors.

Outcome: Graves pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual battery, was placed on
probation until February 2007 and was ordered to surrender her teaching certificate. She must
register as a sex offender until 2013.

Whereabouts: lives in Columbus

Response: She did not respond to requests for comment.

Sources: Franklin County court, Madison Township police records

Kevin E. Kohler

Date of birth: Dec. 30, 1964

School: Madison Junior High and Madison Comprehensive High schools in
Mansfield

Job: band director and assistant band director

Allegation: Police say Kohler had sexual contact with five male students beginning
in 1999. In some cases, Kohler sent pornography to male students and then chatted with them online
while he and they masturbated. He masturbated with at least one other male student over the phone.
On out-of-town trips, students told police, Kohler would masturbate with them while watching porn
and had oral sex with at least one child. "I really don't have a reason. I mean I just … it was a
dumb blunder mistake on my end … just something that happened," Kohler told police.

Outcome: Kohler pleaded guilty in 2003 to two counts of sexual battery and
pandering sexually oriented material involving a minor and pleaded no contest to rape. He was
sentenced to 18 years in prison and labeled a sexual predator. The state revoked his license in
2004.

Timothy W. Neal

Date of birth: Dec. 23, 1975

School: Unioto High School near Chillicothe

Job: band director

Allegation: Neal befriended a 17-year-old student and then lured her to bed during
a seven-month sexual relationship in 2003. They spent nights together in cheap motels and had sex
in his car or in a storage closet at school. Another teacher once caught Neal and the girl at a
motel but promised to keep the affair secret if he ended it. He didn't. Months later, a
school-board member heard rumors and asked for an investigation.

Outcome: Neal pleaded guilty to five counts of sexual battery in 2004. He was
sentenced to six months in jail and five years of probation. He surrendered his teaching
certificate.

Whereabouts: lives in Columbus

Response: "I don't think I care to share. I'm just trying to move on," Neal said
in an interview.

Sources: Ross County sheriff's and court records

Gary J. Nemes

Date of birth: April 14, 1950

School: Admiral King High School in Lorain

Job: German and philosophy teacher

Allegation: School officials said that an online relationship that Nemes fostered
with a troubled 17-year-old student in 2001 crossed the line. "I don't mean to be overdramatic but
seeing you is something I really look forward to. … You are definitely a bright spot in my life,"
Nemes told the girl in one e-mail. In others he wrote that he loved her, missed her and wanted to
spend more time with her. The two also met outside school hours. Nemes denied that the relationship
was sexual.

Outcome: Nemes, a 29-year district veteran, resigned under the threat of
termination. The state revoked his license two years later.

Whereabouts: lives in Lorain

Response: He declined to comment.

Sources: Ohio Department of Education, Lorain police records

Karlos L. Patterson

Date of birth: Sept. 30, 1942

School: Miamisburg High School near Dayton

Job: science teacher and baseball coach

Allegation: Patterson ignored warnings and threats of reprimand from school
officials to steer clear of a 16-year-old girl who had a crush on him. The girl told police she
wore sexy clothes to school in an attempt to seduce the teacher, who was 60. Their seven-month
sexual relationship was discovered in 2002. "I just turned on the charm and things went my way,"
the girl told police. "We decided that once I turned 18, we would get married." Instead, Patterson
was arrested when she was 17.

Outcome: He pleaded no contest to three counts of sexual battery, went to prison
for two years and surrendered his teaching license.

Whereabouts: He was released from prison in 2005 and lives in Miamisburg near the
high school.

Aaron R. Seward

Date of birth: April 9, 1976

School: West Middle School in Lima

Job: music teacher

Allegation: In 2001, Seward attempted to seduce a 15-year-old girl online. He
wrote to her about his sexual urges and boasted that he previously had intercourse with a girl. The
15-year-old introduced Seward online to an undercover police officer posing as a teen named Sarah.
After an hour, Seward told the officer, "I'm horny thinking about you. … I'm going to get naked and
lay on my bed." Police arrested him two days later when he went to meet "Sarah." They found condoms
tucked in his Bible. His hard drive led them to a 14-year-old Lima girl whom Seward had sex with
twice in the woods.

Outcome: He was convicted of importuning and corrupting a minor in 2002. He served
26 months in prison and is a registered sex offender. The state revoked his teaching license.

Joseph M. Shoaf

Date of birth: Dec. 24, 1965

School: Girard City Schools in Trumbull County

Job: superintendent

Allegation: As superintendent, Shoaf used his authority to call female students
out of class to drink and use drugs with him. One student feared that he wanted more after he sent
her black lace panties and a bra with instructions to model them for him. She secretly recorded an
encounter in his office in 2002 where they drank and snorted cocaine during school hours. "I will
cut you a deal, you go and kick it with me, I will pay you whatever the (expletive) you want. ... I
just need somebody to party with." He handed her a $100 bill. She gave the audiotape to police.

Outcome: Shoaf pleaded guilty to corrupting another with drugs, intimidation of a
victim and possession of cocaine that same year. He was sentenced to five years in prison and
surrendered his superintendent's license.

Whereabouts: Grafton Correctional Institution, Lorain County. He's scheduled to be
released in December. He's been offered a $9-an-hour job in construction.

Response: He declined to comment.

Sources: Trumbull County prosecutor and court records

Scott W. Smiles

Date of birth: Nov. 20, 1966

School: Logan-Hocking Middle School in Logan

Job: special-education teacher

Allegation: Smiles was accused of having sexual contact with a 13-year-old female
student and sending sexually graphic e-mails to students. In one to a 14-year-old girl, Smiles
wrote, "Let's be honest. You're hot, and not a little girl. You have 'breedable' hips and something
scientific says 'yow.' " A fellow teacher complained that Smiles called her home and told the
teacher that if her 6-year-old daughter "was old enough to pee, (she's) old enough for me."

Outcome: In 2004, Smiles was indicted on charges of gross sexual imposition,
endangering children, contributing to the unruliness of a child, disseminating matter harmful to
juveniles and sexual imposition. He was convicted of the contributing charge and served two months
in jail. Ohio revoked his license in 2004; Wisconsin, where he also had been licensed, took his
certificates in 2005.

Whereabouts: Smiles lives in Xenia and works as a rehabilitation counselor.

Response: The e-mails were a one-time offense that stemmed from alcoholism, Smiles
said. Once he realized that in a bout of drunkenness he had sent the inappropriate e-mails, he
said, he told school administrators. "I've never done anything like that before and have never done
anything remotely similar since," Smiles said.

Sources: Ohio Department of Education, Hocking County court records

Linda E. Lab Turner

Date of birth: April 1, 1955

School: Indian Valley High School in Tuscarawas County

Job: special-education teacher

Allegation: The teacher befriended a student who had severe behavioral problems,
bought him gifts, and took him to dinner, museums and on weekend getaways in 1999. Then, she had
him move in with her, had sex with him during his senior year and later married him. "My only
intent was to help him as I helped other students," she said at her disciplinary hearing. She said
she thought it was OK to have sex with him once he turned 18. "I didn't know it was illegal at the
time."

Outcome: Lab Turner's 20-year-old daughter from a previous marriage turned her in
to police. She confessed in 2000 and served six months in prison for sexual battery. The state took
her license in 2002.

Whereabouts: She lives in New Philadelphia and is registered as a sexually
oriented offender under the name Linda Evelyn Walls.

Response: She did not respond to an interview request.

Sources: Ohio Department of Education, Tuscarawas County court and New
Philadelphia police records